Example Sentences

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It was as if they were goading Scotland now.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

“She would cross the road to bite your ankles, whether you were goading her or not!”

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

"It was probably an overcorrection from the criticism they were getting before. ... The protesters were goading them into attacking the crowd, but both the police and national guard wouldn't take their bait."

From Fox News • Jun. 5, 2020

But as happens with scrappy entrepreneurial business competitors, in contrast to government bureaucracies, Bezos and Musk were goading each other on.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2018

All that my gloomiest and darkest forebodings had pictured was come to pass; sickness, poverty, harassing unfeeling creditors, treachery, and ingratitude were goading to madness and despair a spirit whose kindliness of nature was unequalled.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James